London’s Southbank Centre is to celebrate the Same-Sex Marriage Bill by welcoming all couples to wed over one weekend in summer 2014.
The Proud to Be Wed Festival will see gay or straight couples join in with the mass celebrations with a two-day relay wedding reception, complete with flowers, food and cake, on The Clore Ballroom in the Royal Festival Hall.
There will be communal dancing across the site, fireworks, and brass bands as well as musicians, magicians, choirs, circus artists, poets and dancers on hand to provide romantic entertainment for all tastes. In advance of the weekend, there will be best man and woman speech-making workshops, calligraphy classes for those who want to create hand-made invitations and opportunities for couples to be linked up with designers to create bespoke wedding outfits. In solidarity of this historic act, people already married will be able to renew their vows too.
Jude Kelly, Artistic Director of Southbank Centre, said:
“Love must be celebrated and so must equal rights. To celebrate this historic moment and in recognition that love conquers all, we will welcome gay and straight couples to be at the centre of our magnificent wedding party at Southbank Centre next summer.”
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